One of the major criticisms of ramp-metering has been the delay caused on the ramps because of the queues created by ramp control strategies. However, recently, several researchers proposed strategies that explicitly take into account ramp queues when determining metering rates. In this paper, an isolated “feedback” based ramp-metering strategy using modeling is presented. In addition to the re...

Privacy-sensitive information can be extracted from the load data which is available in high resolution in smart metering. A number of approaches to privacy-enhancing technologies (PET) have been suggested to provide privacy in smart metering while maintaining (a certain level of) functionality. To date, most of these approaches have not been subjected to real-world use beyond test pilots in mo...

In this paper we present a method of buoyancy-driven centripetal pumping utilizing a heavy, waterimmiscible liquid to displace an aqueous sample radially inwards against the prevailing centrifugal force. Using formerly introduced dissolvable-film valving, we demonstrate metering and bidirectional periodical pumping of a single sample in the radial direction. We then show integrated sample discr...

Painters of the electric power industry, IT has accelerated the development of a smart grid environment. Of Electric Power Industry in the server, watt-hour meter, modem, network, and remote metering and remote meter reading, remote control, and demand is adjustable. Through server optimization techniques to obtain the information of the remote terminal server is installed as a regional, if you...

As a result of recent changes in the policy governing Internet content distribution, such as the institution of per listener royalties for Internet radio broadcasters, content distributors now have an incentive to under-report the size of their audience. Existing metering protocols only protect against inflation of audience size. We introduce the first protocols for audience metering that prote...

iran, with more than 90% of world production, is known as the main saffron producer. this plant is sterile and the saffron proliferation is possible only via cultivation of corms. one of the most problems in saffron cultivation is the yield reduction due to planting of small corms. in this research, a new saffron corm-grading machine is introduced. the machine includes a rotating drum, which is...

Previous observation of spontaneous speech has shown consistent use of pitch accent by speakers to mark the contrastive status of words. To investigate how listeners process accentual prominence marking a contrast, eyemovements were monitored while participants listened to spoken directions and searched for ornaments to decorate holiday trees. Eye movement latencies to the target ornament cells...

A method is presented to divide the measured total congestion in any freeway section into three ‘slices’: (1) the delay that collisions cause; (2) the potential reduction in delay at bottlenecks that ideal ramp metering can achieve; and (3) the remaining delay, due mainly to excess demand, but also to all other causes, including non-collision incidents, lane closures, and weather. The method in...

Smart Grids are becoming a reality all over the world. Nowadays, the research efforts for the introduction and deployment of these grids are mainly focused on the development of the field of Smart Metering. This emerging application requires the use of technologies to access the significant number of points of supply (PoS) existing in the grid, covering the Low Voltage (LV) segment with the low...

The voice is a rich and powerful means of expressing acoustic concepts such as musical sounds. Recent research on vocal imitations has demonstrated the viability of using the voice to search for sounds, using query by vocalisation. Here we present the methods used to develop a dataset for evaluating the performance of query by vocalisation systems for drum sounds. The dataset consists of imitat...